I noticed that we were not reading much with kids, so as the best way of reading practice I decided to focus on traditional and popular stories especially universal ones. Little Red Riding Hood was on my bookshelf and I started to search for activities, worksheets or any thing related to the story. It was not difficult to find materials, but there was a problem: they were such a mass that I had to read and check all of them to plan my lesson. I think internet offers activities, worksheets, avitivities, ideas, and materials for teachers beyond measure, but deciding and planning are becoming tough tasks day by day. Actually this is a proof that no matter how rich and accessible are all the ELT stuff, without a creative and researcher teacher who never shies away from trying new, they would be simply useless. Anyway, lets have a look at my lesson plan with LRRH.
1. Warm up: Talk about stories and ask about students' favourite stories and characters. (Write story on board and add their favourites). Let them guess the story of the day with some key words such as: a girl, a mommy, a wood, a granny, a basket, a bad wolf, etc.
2. Then watch and read the LRRH.
Watch the Story
Story
3. Do the following activities.
Activities
4. Play bingo. Click on the link below and prepare bingo cards for students and put teachers' cards in a small box or a bag. Put some happy or exciting music background. This is a fun way to recyle new vocabulary items. Play twive or three times by changing students' bingo cards.
Happy Background Music
Bingo
5. Do the activity "Guess Who?". A good way to talk about appearance. Then ask Students to describe each other.
Guess Who?
6. Time for role play! You can prepare their masks in advance like I did or if you have time you can prepare the masks with your kids. Also you can print black and white masks and ask students to color their own masks. Do not forget to use some realia like flowers, basket, etc. and give kids some time to practice and focus on their prounciation and intonation.
Masks (Coloured)
Masks (Black and White)
Play
7. Finally,in the feedback session talk about the best performance, and their favourite characters.
Here are some photos from our lesson with LRRH.